Additional Resources
Web Resources
Cartoons for the Classroom
Presented by NIEonline and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, this website offers many ideas for incorporating editorial cartoon in the teaching of American History. Check out the Lesson library
http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm
New York Times Learning Network
This site is geared towards students in grades 3-12. Teachers can access daily lesson plans for grades 6-12, as well as quizzes built around NYT articles. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. Teachers can also use News Snapshot, aimed for grades 3-5, to explore current events through New York Times photos and related questions.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
Toward Racial Equality: Harper’s Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
This website uses text and images from issues of Harper’s Weekly to examine the perception of African Americans in the 19th century news media. Also of interest: 19th Century Advertising and Immigrant and Ethnic America
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/
Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage Discovery Center – Johnstown Area Heritage Association
This site offers a brief history of the immigration and migration of various groups to the Johnstown, PA area attracted by work in the coal and steel industries.
http://www.jaha.org/DiscoveryCenter/immigration.html
National Child Labor Committee Collection - American Memory - Library of Congress
The collection consists of more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives taken by investigative photographer Lewis Hine for NCLC documenting the working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. Try search terms: Steel and Iron.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcabt.html
PBS: Joe Hill – KUED 7 - University of Utah
Joe Hill offers a profile of the early 20th century labor martyr, putting his story into the context of immigration history and labor union movements. The site features sound files and film clips.
http://www.kued.org/productions/joehill/
Samuel Gompers Papers Project: A Documentary History of Trade and Labor Unions in the U.S. and Canada
A collection of primary source materials related to the life of Samuel Gompers and American labor history. Sponsored by the University of Maryland College Park, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the AFL-CIO.
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company 1880-1920 – American Memory – Library of Congress
This collection from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Try searching: Steel and Furnace.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
Using Songs to Teach Labor History – American Labor Studies Center
An article prepared by Alan Singer, a Professor at Hofstra University, with lyrics, sound files, and a list of resources for teachers.
http://www.labor-studies.org/songs_to_teach.htm
Columbus Metropolitan Library: Columbus in Historic Photographs
This database provided by the Columbus Metropolitan Library provides a glimpse of street scenes and buildings of historic Columbus, Ohio.
http://www.columbuslibrary.org/cmlohio/photohome.cfm
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